The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-23

! ''5hou ~ mi. ''thiEc IN, t"ttloOil, hl
Boston, a philosopher, a thinker, q
patriot. In 1850 there were in round
numbers, one million of people in
| Massachusetts and 1895 prisoners
prisoner TO a0+ Of the populations
| As education progressed crime pro
| gressed, Education walked and crime
ran-until 10 1854 there were &j 600
siX.ytve thousand arrests, or one
arrest for every 10 of the population ;
and assuming that five persons con
sttute a family, we have the alarming
| result OF one arrest to every six fam
lilies in the state. The criminals in
the house of correction of Hampden
county increased from 2GS to l,15l in
less than 20 years. The population
increased only 100 per cen,. while
crime increased 3l2. In the last five
years it increased s. per cent, and
the the sheriff in his report says this
condition Will probably continue.
Continue bow long, | wGnder,
VIII it be until, ike Sodom ana Go.
| norrah, Li.e~e be not ten righteous
men left? In 1858, there were :,lO0
commitments more than 1852, Mr..
.;tetSUn shows that in this rapid in
crease of crime the native population
| l. Just az bad as the foreign.
Then, again, look ut the divorces
a class of statistics from which the
| toreign element is eliminated lu
| 1868 there was but ons divorce t.
3,l34 persons. IN 1880 there was one
10 ,551. IL the last tpii years dis
vorces have increased more thai
twice as rapidly as marriages, and
more than three times as rapidly as
population. DR., Dorchester says:
'rihe most libtra! view Of the gues-
tou can but awaken concern for the
oermanence Of social order and the
stability Of public virtue.
an Massachusetts there was III
1882 one divorce to every tLirty-four
marriages, aud the ratio increasing
every year. In Rhode Island, one
to fourteen in Connecticut one to
tifeyeraas- ssa4-s -
But the number Of divorces does
not represent Ealf the number OF
unhappy marriages or broken mar
riage VOWS, cases that do not get into
| he courts, md hence it can be safely
estimated that not more than eight
families in ten have preserved the
purity and honor of the family rela-
ton. Upon the purity depends not
,nly the welfare of society, but the
perpetuity Of the natioix
Mr.. Stetson says: Public morals
are now 50 low that vast c"t spifacies
are entered into to defraud whole
communites-corporations. orgahiz-
ed to defraud the innocent aud un-
wary--puhlic olilce rrostitutea 10
personal gain and the capital oFbanks
gambled with by persons high in
social position.
ave find the public press pander-
ing to low vulgar curiosity in DISCUS
ting details of crimes against pubic
order and decency, to satisfy morbid
public craving.
ave find that the books Of the
least value have the greatest crcu-
lation.
1--WE find that the largest number
of the regular attendants go to church
in search of amusement and intel
lectual qualification. rather than iof
worship or instruction. ~
These admissions are alarming TO
every lover Of his country--to every
parent who feels parental soiieitude
for the welfare of his children.
We congratulate our people--onf
people of Georgia and the south
that we are still far removed irom
this lamentable condition. Our coun-
ty of Barlow is an average county
PEI haps no better, no worse, man 'he
general population of the south; ana
here we have population Of a5,oOo'
two-thirds white, and only ninety
eight arrests for crime in the past
veal. Seventy-two of these were
negroes, but we will draw no race
distinctions, and itsis one III 2ooi
while in Massachusetts II II one IN
twenty-nine. If we estimate the
whites alone it is one in $50.
Then compare the divorces. Ihere
were only three suits for divorce last
year, that is one divorce to more than
1910 people and only three divorces